Android notifications are great. This tutorial looks at how to create more powerful notifications including custom layouts and expandable notifications.

We will go over the steps for changing notification sounds for Samsung Messages. Our tutorial uses a Samsung Galaxy phone with Android 14 and One UI 6.1.

Starting with Android 8.0 you can separate your app’s notifications into notification channels. All notifications that are posted to the same channel have the same behaviour, for example you ...

For example, imagine having your notifications sorted into categories like “Social,” “Promotions,” “News,” and more. You would no longer need to scroll through a chaotic mix of ...

Smartphone notifications As I mentioned earlier, the way Android Wear determines what notifications show up on your watch all depends on the notification settings you have on your Android device ...

Tap it. In that menu, you’ll see the ‘Notifications’ section. As you can see, there are various channels that are allowed to send notifications to my device from this app.

Namely, the iOS 12 beta and Android 9.0 bring a few changes to how notifications are handled. They’re now more similar than ever, so we decided to put them side by side to compare.

On the upside, Android 16 has two enhancements for hearing aid wearers. Google added an option to let you control a hearing ...